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  • What if Severe Mental Illness (SMI) leaves a metabolic/chemical fingerprint?

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    Author: Stephen Binaansim Image by Javaistan from Pixabay, Sept. 2026 Imagine walking into a clinic feeling sick, but instead of relying on a straightforward lab result, your diagnosis depends almost entirely on how you describe your feelings. Unlike most medical fields, where clear biological tests instantly unveil what is wrong inside the body, psychiatric diagnosis…

  • AI spots heart attack risks before they strike

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    Author: Phoebe Lewis Photo By: Etatics Inc. from Pexels / 2022 AI is now helping doctors detect heart disease even before visible symptoms appear. While some people are cautious about this advancement, one company–Caristo Diagnostics, an Oxford University spin-out–has shown how AI can be used responsibly to pre-empt heart conditions. Their technology enables the identification…

  • Artificial general intelligence presents an existential threat

    Artificial general intelligence presents an existential threat

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    You’ve heard of AI, but artificial general intelligence poses another danger, as Jason Segall explores in this article, suggesting what could be done to mitigate the potential disasters the technology could bring about.

  • Artificial intelligence tackling coronavirus

    Artificial intelligence tackling coronavirus

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    An outbreak of the latest coronavirus strain to cause acute respiratory disease, COVID-19, has shown artificial intelligence (AI) to be a useful tool in multiple areas of the response effort. In 2003 the world saw a life-threatening epidemic of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS-CoV) and in 2012 middle east respiratory syndrome (MERS-CoV), which continues to…